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In 1903, Trinity House sold off Belle Tout Lighthouse for GBP200. In 2008 the building changed hands for GBP500,000. David Shaw, the current owner, when he bought this piece of living history, said, 'This was a purchase I made with my heart not with my head.' It is a miracle Belle Tout is still standing, as this distinctive landmark on Beachy Head cliffs, in East Sussex, England, has survived de-commissioning, abandonment, being shot and shattered, reduced to a ruinous condition deemed only fit for demolition, and then, as the surrounding cliffs fell away, threatened with a watery grave 334 feet below. Over a period of 20 years, author Elizabeth Wright has gathered together every scrap of available information on Belle Tout. The end result is an informative and fascinating book. This little lighthouse was actually the 'Third Beachy Head Light,' following on from Parson Darby' lanterns, and 'Mad' Jack Fuller's temporary wooden hut, each set up to warn passing sailing ships of the dangers of hidden reefs in an area known locally as the 'Mariner's Graveyard.' Trinity house was eventually persuaded that a 'proper' lighthouse was urgently needed. Built of Aberdeen granite blocks bought by barge and ox cart from Scotland to Sussex, Belle Tout's warning light was first lit on 11th October 1834. But being wrongly sited, it never came up to expectations. De-commissioned, in 1903 it was sold off as a 'private dwelling house,' for GBP200, to local landowner, Carew Davis Gilbert. There are in-depth chapters on each of Belle Tout's owners, including the BBC, who used the building as a backdrop to film the four - part, award-winning series, 'The Life and Loves of the She-Devil,' starring Dennis Waterman and Patricia Hodge. Both the lighthouse and the grounds were given total makeovers, with occasional hold-ups from the erroneous ripping up of carefully planted flowers, falling trees, a cliff-hanging Rolls-Royce, exploding shells and naked women. There was a King who came to visi
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